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I've always been really interested with the alien autopsy that was said to filmed after the Roswell thing.
1. Was it proven to be fake?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_autopsyQUOTE
Santilli's admission
On April 4, 2006, two days prior to the UK release of Alien Autopsy, a British comedy feature film on the subject of the footage, British Sky Broadcasting broadcast a documentary, Eamonn Investigates: Alien Autopsy, presented by Eamonn Holmes. In this program, Ray Santilli and fellow producer Gary Shoefield announced that their film was only partially real (approximately five percent), and that the rest was a reconstruction of twenty-two rolls of film, averaging four minutes in length, which they viewed in 1992, but which had degraded from humidity and heat, with only a few frames staying intact, by the time that they were able to return to purchase it.
Santilli and Shoefield stated that they had "restored" the damaged footage by filming a simulated autopsy on a fabricated alien, based upon what they saw in 1992, and then adding in sections of the original film that had not degraded. They have not identified which parts are original footage.
According to Santilli, a set was constructed in the living room of an empty flat in Rochester Square, Camden Town, London. John Humphreys, an artist and sculptor, was employed to construct two dummy alien bodies over a period of three weeks, using casts containing sheep brains set in jelly, chicken entrails and knuckle joints obtained from S.C. Crosby Wholesale Butchers in Smithfield meat market, London. Humphreys also played the role of the chief scientist undertaking the examination, in order to allow him to control the effects being filmed. There were two separate attempts at making the footage. After filming, the team disposed of the "bodies" by cutting them into small pieces and placing them in rubbish bins across London.
Alien objects, supposedly items recovered from the crash site, were depicted in the footage. These included alien symbols and six-finger control panels, which Santilli admits to being the result of artistic licence on his part. These artifacts were also created by Humphreys. The footage also showed a man reading a statement "verifying" his identity as the original cameraman and the source of the footage. Santilli and Shoefield later admitted that they had found an unidentified homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles, persuaded him to play the role of the cameraman, and filmed him in a hotel.
Then Also Read:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2136617,00.htmlQUOTE
... Alien Autopsy, a movie about the footage, is currently on release across Britain. It stars real-life television presenters Ant and Dec.
John Humphreys, a sculptor and consultant on Alien Autopsy who has also worked on special effects for Doctor Who, said it was he who made the models for the alien dissected in the original fake footage.
His confession, 11 years after the Roswell footage was first shown, will raise questions about the role of Channel 4, which unleashed Max Headroom on the world in the 1980s and bought the UK rights to screen the Roswell footage in Britain.
The footage was first exposed as a fake by The Sunday Times, but an estimated billion people still watched it around the world.
Rather than being shot in 1947 near Roswell in the New Mexico desert as previously claimed, the film was actually made at a flat in Camden, north London, in 1995.
So I hope this answers your question on that - Yes it was a total fake to do just what it was suppose to do: MAKE MONEY.
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2. I read somewhere that one theory was the alien was a human who had been caught up in a nuclear blast or something. Has anyone else heard about this?
Actually there is another theory that I think holds more water - That the "greys" were actually an 'accident' by Germans in WWII - in their attempt to make the Super Soldier, one of the 'side tracks' that their experiments took, was this creature we now call the "Grey". If you follow the 'history' of them to present, there is an an interesting case that can be presented that makes this equally possible and I feel personally more so than their being ET's from another planet. Even using people's own encounters w/them and what it is 'they' are trying to do. But that is just my alternate theory using the same evidence out there.
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